While the recently-announced Asus ZenFone 3 Deluxe packs in a Snapdragon 820 SoC, a new rumor is claiming that the Taiwanese company will soon launch a Snapdragon 823 variant of the device as well.

For the uninitiated, the SD823 chipset is the same as the S820 model, except that the quad-core Kryo CPU will run on a higher clock.

The rumor says the new variant will be available in certain Asian markets – including Philippines and India – in the month of August. There was, however, no word on exactly how much the device will cost. The standard ZenFone 3 Deluxe, in case you don’t…

Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus has confirmed that it’s upcoming smartphone – the OnePlus 3 – will be unveiled on June 15, which is less than a couple of weeks from now.

The announcement came in the form of a post on Weibo (China’s Twitter), where-in the company also revealed that the device will be available for purchase the very next day (i.e., June 16).

In case you missed, OnePlus has already announced that the OP3 will be released invite-free right from launch day, making it the first OnePlus device that’ll be available sans-invite. “In addition, invites are gone forever…

“One Emoji Standard for the Messenger World” – Facebook Messenger has announced on the official Messenger Facebook account that it is going to roll out a new and vast selection of diversified emojis that users of any platform can enjoy, even if they don’t have the newest software with updated emojis that iPhone users saw first.

Facebook also mentioned it was going to unify the way emojis are displayed on Facebook Messenger by displaying emojis the exact same way across Android, iOS, and other platforms. “No more broken-looking black boxes or emojis that just don’t make sense. Our…

Verizon is enticing customers both old and new with a new promotion for Father’s Day. Big Red wants to throw in a free Samsung Smart TV for any customers who purchase any Samsung flagship device as long as one of the phones are purchased on a new line.

The devices include all the Samsung Flagships sold in the year 2015 up to now. The Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 edge, Note 5, S7 , and S7 edge are all eligible devices for the promotion.

If customers purchase a single Samsung device on a new line, they will receive a 32 inch Samsung Smart TV for free. If you want to receive a 50 inch…

Google has released a blog post today outlining the new updates coming to Google Now on Tap very soon. Google knows that oftentimes Google Now on Tap won’t be able to make sense of a long email or a screen with a lot of text and images.

Now on Tap users will be able manually set where they would like to target Google’s search to take place. An example would be if someone were to summon Google Now on Tap while reading a long article where they only wanted to search for the definition of a single word.

This should let users have a better experience in the case that a large amount…